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Go Go Archimedes!
Oct 09, 2007 16:08
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gible
will probably be interested in this...)
It seems that ole Isaac didn't invent Calculus after all...
Secrets of Calculus hid in prayer book for more than a millennium
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An ancient prayer book was discovered to contain notes from Archimedes, showing that the Greek mathematician already began to discover the principles of calculus more than a millennium before that branch of math was created. The prayer book was sold at Christie's Auction House for US$ 2 million.
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(Source:
science.QJ.net
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maths
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